January 2014 Cairo bombings

The first was at the police headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, which were attacked with a large truck bomb just after 06:30 local time.

[3][4] CCTV caught a white truck stop at 06:29 outside the building, with the driver jumping into another car.

[3][5] Irina Bokova, Unesco's director-general, said: "This raises the danger of irreversible damage to the history and identity of the Egyptian people.

[3] On 25 January another bomb exploded at 07:00 local time in the Ein Shams district of eastern Cairo but there were no casualties.

[6] Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, a group affiliated to Al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for all the bombings, saying in a statement, "We tell our dear nation that these attacks were only the first drops of rain, so wait for what is coming up.